Last Green Entrepreneur Workshop: 31 March 2022
The last Green Entrepreneurship Workshop in our 2022 series will be held on 31 March from 3:00 to 4:30 pm Eastern Time. The series is free of charge and will be offered in English, French and Spanish. Sign up here!
Join our workshop on Succeeding as a Student with a Green Startup. This session will offer tips, tricks and lessons learned from students that are also entrepreneurs who are balancing their entrepreneurship careers and their studies.
The event, hosted by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s EcoInnovation Network and UWaterloo’s Environment @ Entrepreneurship Office, is offered free of charge to entrepreneurs interested in understanding how to integrate sustainability into their business models.
You will hear from young entrepreneurs and leaders from across North America including:
- Niria Garcia, Director, Thriving Communities and former UNEP Young Champion for the Earth recipient
- Keynote speaker/Opening remarks
- Integrating traditional knowledge with new technology
- Intergenerational mentorship
- Gregorio Allan Rodríguez Ortiz, Co-Founder Ingenia Concretos
- Turning ideas into action
- How to use your studies as a starting point for entrepreneurship
- Success stories and lessons learned
- Gabriel Saunders, Founder of Decomp, 2021 Youth Innovation Challenge Winner
- Turning ideas into action
- How to use your studies as a starting point for entrepreneurship
- Success stories and lessons learned
This session will be facilitated by Nick Palaschuk, University of Waterloo Doctoral Candidate, Energy Council of Canada Research Fellow and EcoInnovation Network Youth Ambassador
Some key themes for this session:
- Turning ideas into action: Advice for students who are eager to address social/environmental issues though entrepreneurship.
- Resources and opportunities for students as they continue their entrepreneurial journey
- Success stories and lessons learned from student and youth entrepreneurs
- Uniqueness of youth and student entrepreneurship
Register now for the Green Entrepreneurship Workshop Series and view the complete agenda here.
About the CEC
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) focuses on strengthening the protection of the environment and fosters sustainable development across North America—for the benefit of all, today and into the future. The CEC facilitates knowledge exchange, develops resources and tools, and promotes inclusive and diverse public engagement. Since its creation in 1994, the CEC has been a unique example of regional collaboration.
The CEC was established by the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States through the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, a parallel environmental agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). As of 2020, the CEC operates in accordance with the Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA), which entered into force at the same time as the CUSMA/T-MEC/USMCA trade agreement.
Find out more at: www.cec.org